2.For subscription instances, you have to implement lifecycle management on a per-instance basis, which results in a huge O&M workload.

3.Without resource reservations, you may have to wait when you attempt to create pay-as-you-go instances.

Reserved Instances Help You to

1.Reduce costs: Compared with pay-as-you-go instances, reserved instances provide you with significant discounts up to 79%.

2.Ease financial pressure: In addition to All Upfront, reserved instances provide the Partial Upfront and No Upfront payment options, which allow you to pay low or none upfront payments, reducing financial pressure.

3.Improve O&M efficiency: Reserved instances are used in combination with pay-as-you-go instances. You can modify the scopes of reserved instances across zones and use reserved instances to create or release matching pay-as-you-go instances as needed.

4.Simplify lifecycle management: One reserved instance can match multiple pay-as-you-go instances. After the reserve instance expires, the pay-as-you-go instances that you create by using this reserve instance are not released.

The lifecycle of each mobile game service provided by the mobile game company is about six months. When the DAU of a mobile game service drops, the company releases some ECS instances used by the service and purchases new ECS instances to run other online game services.

The company purchases Reserved Instances and uses them to create pay-as-you-go instances. Compared with subscription instances, this combination of reserved instances and pay-as-you-go instances streamlines O&M and financial procedures, helping the company save 15% on compute costs.

DevOps of an Internet Company

At an Internet company, different phases of a project lifecycle, such as development, testing, and deployment, require different levels of compute power.

The company used to purchase subscription instances to save costs. However, flexibility was affected because they cannot release or create instances as needed when resource distribution changes.

This situation drove their decision to switch to reserved instances. Compared with subscription instances, reserved instances provide similar compute cost effectiveness and higher business deployment flexibility.

Terms and Conditions

The ECS instance families of reserved instances cannot be changed.

There is a limit to the number of reserved instances that you can purchase. You can purchase a maximum of 20 regional reserved instances and a maximum of 20 zonal reserved instances in each zone.

You cannot upgrade or downgrade burstable instances (t5 instances) and can buy only zonal reserved instances for t5 instances.